Intel Core i9-10900KF vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i9-10900KF vs Core i5-13450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900KF beats the Core i5-13450HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i9-10900KF has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Also, the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.